In this riveting new novel, best-selling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary nineteenth-century figure. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the insights of fiction to explore the many mysteries attached to the life and work of Charles Darwin.
What led Darwin to the theory of evolution? Why did he wait twenty-two years to write On the Origin of Species? Why was he incapacitated by mysterious illnesses and frightened of travel? Who was his secret rival? These are some of the questions driving Darnton’s richly dramatic narrative, which unfolds through three vivid points of view: Darwin’s own as he sails around the world aboard the Beagle; his daughter Lizzie’s as she strives to understand the guilt and fear that struck her father at the height of his fame; and that of present-day anthropologist Hugh Kellem and Darwin scholar Beth Dulicmer, whose obsession with Darwin (and with each other) drives them beyond the accepted boundaries of scholarly research. What Hugh and Beth discover–Lizzie’s diaries and letters lead them to a hidden chapter of Darwin’s autobiography–is a maze of bitter rivalries, petty deceptions, and jealously guarded secrets, at the heart of which lies the birth of the theory of evolution.
With The Darwin Conspiracy, John Darnton again delivers a stunning tapestry of history and imagination, a galvanizing novel.
約翰•丹頓(John Darnton)
他曾經是《紐約時報》著名記者。
他兩度奪得喬治•波爾剋奬。更憑藉一則在冷戰時期偷渡齣波蘭的故事,榮膺普利策奬。
他的第一部暢銷之作《尼安德特人》被譽為“具有廣博知識的一種娛樂性閱讀”。導演斯皮爾伯格購買瞭這本書的電影改編權。
他所有的作品,包括《尼安德特人》、《生命》、《靈魂捕手》和《實驗》等都是美國當年最紅小說,均被翻譯成多種語種。
读这种涉及名人名事的小说,总会引起自己对自己那点历史知识的怀疑,自己所听所见的真的是历史的真相吗?尽然亦不尽然。。。人性除了黑与白,或许还真的有灰色地带,不把一切想得那么好,也不把一切想得那么糟,世界还是蛮美好的。
評分历史背景坚实?达尔文暂且不说,把华莱士描写成一个惟利是图的奸恶之辈,不知是否历史真实?如果不是,那就涉嫌污蔑诽谤了。总觉得对历史真实人物的艺术创造不该是这样的。
評分昨天去图书馆借了5本书回来看,什么类型的都有,其中一本小说叫做《达尔文的阴谋》,是美国当代作家约翰.丹顿的作品;因为感觉自己知识和阅历尚浅无法理解,我很少看当代的作品的,国外的就更少了,这次也算是个尝试,在图书馆里翻看这本书的时候觉得翻译很好很易懂,于是就...
評分华莱士,马修斯,达尔文,麦考密克,一切都源于世界尽头的隐士的启迪,理论的发现那么扑朔迷离,作为后人的我们很难去发现事实的真相,众说纷纭,华莱士一直活在达尔文的阴影之下,麦考密克作为达尔文的竞争对手,他的一切又很难说的清。历史的真相的挖掘是如此费力,盖棺未必...
評分只看这4000字就够了,不必费劲看其它26万字.我只是死抗着看完了前面那些字.这4000字就说明的达尔文的阴谋是什么.其实这不是个阴谋,因为RM死的时候达尔文并不是不想救他,只是自身难保. 作者似乎想层层深入,如抽丝剥茧般揭开那个所谓的大阴谋,可惜他没做到.前面的铺垫丝毫...
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